Thread: <MATERIA> First-Come First-Served AND Lottery Plots

The Materia DC has been anticipating the release of 6.1 housing and in today's Live Letter, it was announced that all plots would initially be lottery-based.

This puts many people in a tough spot and also heavily encourages the use of alt accounts and bots. Many of the Materia community ask the dev team to reconsider this 100% lottery-plot plan and make half of the wards first-come, first-served as it was in the past.

This new system heavily favors numbers. Materia is still a fledgling data center, and with a small community, we'd all like a chance at houses.

I'm sure that within the community there are many personal reasons that people will also have for not wanting a lottery-based system enabled in all wards.

On behalf of the players, I urge you to reconsider.

Frankly, For Materia, I want housing in LB, Mist, Goblet, and Shirogane opened as soon as possible, fcfs.

Then we can do ishgard like all other data centres.

There isn't any sensible reason to keep delaying our ability to buy a house.

We've been open a month and we got 1,000,000g bonus for new characters, and another million gil bonus for transferring over an apartment. With earning over the month, it's more than enough for many people to start buying.

They are giving fresh players a chance to compete with all of you who moved there with gils.
Not my business, just saying.

I agree with OP. Housing in new worlds should at the very least open with the four systems outlined prior to the slide that indicates all will lottery in 6.1.

It makes no sense to run a lottery only system when opening housing on new worlds in a new data-centre, no sense at all.

Many of us left houses on our old worlds to support the opening of the new data-centre, it seems unfair to subject us all to the mercy of RNG only in our attempt to reclaim what we gave up.

Some lottery and some FCFS would be the fairest solution.

Originally Posted by Damptoe

As a personal side note, crafting without housing merchants is unpleasant and I can't wait to get out of Limsa.

I've taken to spending time at the MB in Empyreum when crafting- at least I have a summoning bell and MB right there lol! But I am not doing well as a hobo, not going to lie.

I agree and I am also rioting over an all lottery system.
This is plain unfair to those of us who dislike the lottery system, to those of us who are fine with the effort needed for first come first serve, to those of us who have already given up our houses on other datacenters only to be told we're running on another chance.

It is illogical to go through this lottery system on a low population data center where there are going to be 7200 houses opening per server and there might not even be that many people wanting a house. Hell, there might not even be that many people on the actual server. A couple servers on Materia have populations under 2000 people. Houses greatly outnumber players and those who possibly want a house.
The lottery system is intended for larger servers and datacenters who have an active need for a housing system change.
Some wards being first come first serve makes it easier for those who want their dream house, for an fc that immediately wants to work on engaging content for their community to go get a house and dive into it, for those who want to garden and decorate.
This will just be a hinderance on a player or free companies time to begin what they want to do in this game and gatekeeps content.

Materia should be half first come first serve and half lottery. This way, everyone gets what they want with housing and those who want to immediately do their housing content have the ability to do so.

I agree completely, at least reconsider Materia because it's a completely new data center with new worlds. I left my medium house behind and now I don't want to have to fight a lottery just to even get a small.